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Split staging and an actor splitting time between two characters highlight the Ohio University-Chillicothe theater production of the light-hearted comedy "Hocus Pocus" at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Bennett Hall auditorium.

The play, written by Jack Popplewell, is a British farce set in the 1960s and concerns identical twins - one an Anglican minister and the other a financier - who, for financial reasons, must switch roles. The love interests of both young men, along with an attorney and a housekeeper, keep things rolling along.